Re: [gentoo-user] how to control portage space usage

[Fernando Meira <fmeira@gmail.com>]

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On 8/8/05, Richard Fish <bigfish@asmallpond.org> wrote:

> My preference, since I normally mount with noatime, is:
> 
> mount /u/p/distfiles -o remount,atime (yes, I keep distfiles on a
> separate LVM volume!)
> emerge --deep --emptytree --fetchonly world (updates atimes)
> mount /u/p/distfiles -o remount,noatime
> find /u/p/distfiles -amin +60 -exec rm -v {} \;
> 
> The above commands will remove all distfiles not needed anymore, either
> due to updates or unmerge packages.


This looks to be a very nice way to do it. It works in another way than the 
scripts I been looking to. Instead of searching what "should" be deprecated, 
it verifies that after an emerge world.. nice and simple!! However, in this 
way you'll erase all other packages that you may need in case you want to 
recompile them.. but maybe in this case, it's better to download them again 
than keep ALL of them wasting your disk space.

Other thing: I was not aware of LVM volumes, what are the advantages of 
using it to keep distfiles? And, how big is your volume?

Cheers,
Fernando

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